An amazing online interactive thesaurus. Shows parts of speech and will pronounce word. Terrific for vocabulary for all content areas. Subscription Site.
This site works like refrigerator magnets. Scroll to the bottom for an alphabet chat. You can even enter words of your own into the chat boards - just Shift-Click anywhere and type the new word.
Comic Life works with a PC or Mac and allows the user to "enhance" photos with "talk" bubbles or "thought bubbles. Great for a different kind of a writing activity. You can also add any text to tell a visual story for a flow chart or "first, then, next, last." Comic Life is a subscription site. $29 per user.
A fascinating free web site that can be used to make "visual maps" of words. Just type in a list of words to describe a "character" or "adjectives" or "feelings" or vocabulary and a jpeg is created.
Jeopardy Games are great ways to review or assess or gauge student knowledge. These templates are powerpoint files and are very easy to use.
How do I edit this table? Simple!
Click on the 'Edit' button to edit this page or document
Place your cursor in the last row of the table at the END of the last sentence
And tap the TAB key - if that doesn't work - when your cursor is in the last row:
You will see an icon (picture) that looks like this:
Click once on it and it will give you options for how to 'add a row' or 'add a column' and then it will ask you if you want to add the row or column above or below or to the right or left.
Try it yourself
How do I add a link? Simple!
If you want to add a link to a website that you found you need the URL (web address) for that website. Here is how you do it:
For example, I want to add a link to the Wisconsin Humane Society. That URL is: http://www.wihumane.org/
So, to add a link from a wiki page to a website - like the Wisconsin Humane Society:
Go to the site and copy the URL - located in the address field at the top or the webpage (http://www.wihumane.org/)
Go to the Wiki page and Type in some text like: Click here to go to the Wisconsin Humane Society or just WHS
Highlight that text
In the 'floating' Editor toolbar, select 'Link'
Click on 'External Link' and paste the URL in to that field
Test your link
PS - An 'external link' is one that is NOT a wiki page - it is located OUTSIDE of your wiki. A Wiki link will be a link to a page inside your wiki
English LA Links
Below are some of the greatest resources for English / Reading / Language Arts.
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How do I edit this table? Simple!
How do I add a link? Simple!
If you want to add a link to a website that you found you need the URL (web address) for that website. Here is how you do it:For example, I want to add a link to the Wisconsin Humane Society. That URL is: http://www.wihumane.org/
So, to add a link from a wiki page to a website - like the Wisconsin Humane Society: